Château d'Aiguebelette-le-Lac

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The Château d'Aiguebelette-le-Lac is a former castle from the beginning of the 14th century, center of the seigneury of Aiguebelette, erected in Barony in 1624, whose remains stand on the commune of Aiguebelette-le-Lac in the department of Savoy, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region.

Situation: The remains of the Château d'Aiguebelette-le-Lac are located in the French department of Savoie on the commune of Aiguebelette-le-Lac, in the village, near the lake. His esplanade served as a terrace at the old Bellevue chalet-hotel.

History: It is estimated that a castle existed in the 12th century but that it suffered a first destruction by Guigues VIII of Vienna in the early 14th century. The castle of Aiguebelette-le-Lac was rebuilt around 1305, when Geoffroy de Clermont, lord of Clermont in Vienna, received him in Oblate fief from Count Amédée V de Savoie. The family of Clermont retained it until 1454, when Gabriel de Clermont, having taken sides for France, was dispossessed and the future Louis XI destroyed it again. Reconstructed, in the 16th century it was the undivided property of the Chabod-Lescheraine and Rivoire family, lords of Romagnieu. In 1624 the...